Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a funny, tongue-in-cheeck article about the upcoming Microsoft Vista OS (formerly Longhorn) over at eWeek titled “I’m So Excited by Microsoft Vista. Not.” Here is an excerpt:

Like, wow, Microsoft’s Vista, the former Longhorn, is now only more than a year away.

With this latest beta, we’re finally going to see lots of really new, cool features.

For example, it’s going to have speech recognition! How cool is that!?

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Ambivablog has a post titled Here’s Why Dems Will Lose Again. More interesting than the article (sorry amba) was a comment by Rob from Roborant:

The Dems have maneuvered themselves into an odd position. They used campaign finance reform as a weapon and plank in their campaigns. This made individual contributions extremely important. It also made third-party loophole organizations like moveon.org extremely important.

Then they found out that the disturbed fringe of the party was the best source of individual donations - both to the party and to the other organizations. So, now they have to play to the fringe for money, but appeal to the center for enough votes to win.

I think they keep losing until this problem is solved. Imagine how screwed the Repubs would be if all of their money was coming from the religious right…

I’m not sure how this all came to be, but I certainly blame Karl Rove.

Not only is it insightful, but the last line made me laugh out loud.

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